Proverbs 16:4
The LORD has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
In Context
3Commit your deeds to the LORD, and your plans shall succeed.
Cross References
Job 21:30that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out to the day of wrath?
Isaiah 43:21the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.
Romans 11:36For of him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.
2 Peter 2:3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
Revelation 4:11“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honour, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed and were created!”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:4
3 Commit thy works unto the Lord , and thy thoughts shall be established. Note, 1. It is a very desirable thing to have our thoughts established, and not tossed, and put into a hurry, by disquieting cares and fears,—to go on in an even steady course of honesty and piety, not disturbed, or put out of frame, by any event or change,—to be satisfied that all shall work for good and issue well at last, and therefore to be always easy and sedate. 2. The only way to have our thoughts established is to commit our works to… Read the whole commentary →